When Todd looks at a tree he sees many different shapes, and gains a real sense of movement.  He enjoys the organic, unpredictable way the tree shows movement through wind and natural growth. To Todd, the Danglers represent a sharp contrast to trees, with their rigid lines and geometrical shapes.  When wind, weather and light come into play, the pieces take on an entirely different look. At first when Todd created the Danglers, he only hung one or two from each tree, but then it occurred to him to increase this number to ten or fifteen or more, and hang them in the same place.  He found that this further delineates the art from the tree, yet at the same time the increased contrast shows more similarities between the art and the trees; a perfect complement.                  

Todd has been making woven wood art from very thin strips of reclaimed wood for some time.  He had never done anything on a larger scale until this piece.  The wood that Todd chose to construct Woven is from oak, walnut, cherry, ash, sweet gum and hackberry. While standing around his sawmill, a friend noted that he had a big pile of, as he called it, “trash that needed to be cut up and burned.”   Todd looked at the pile, with all of the different kinds of wood and was inspired to make a much larger woven wood art piece. This is the piece that you see on Roe.  Todd felt that the different contrasting colors of the wood could be combined on one piece of art to show how, what some would consider trash can be appreciated and enjoyed by everyone.   Todd hopes you enjoy his trash.